Etymologies

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oro- + -graphy

Examples

Examples include the representation of clouds and radiation; dry and moist convective processes; the formation of precipitation and its deposition on the surface as rain or snow; the interactions between the atmosphere and the land-surface orography (including the drag on the atmosphere caused by breaking gravity waves); and atmospheric boundary-layer processes and their interaction with the surface.

Approaching now, through the high valleys, the central region of the mountain system of Corsica, this may be a proper place for a brief survey of the main features in its orography and geological structure.

Coahuila, in common with others of its neighbouring states, possesses some peculiar topographical conditions -- portions of it consisting of plains or valleys with no hydrographic outlet, as shown in the chapter dealing with the orography of the Republic.

Indeed, a study of Mexico's orography and the delineation upon the map shows the series of parallel features formed by alternate mountain-folds and intervening basins -- the peninsula of Lower California; the Gulf of the same name; the Western Sierra Madre; the intersecting crests of the great plateau; the Eastern Sierra Madre, and the Gulf Coast.